Andrew Light is assistant professor of philosophy and environmental studies at SUNY-Binghamton.Jonathan M. Smith is associate professor of geography at Texas A&M University.

• Chapter 1 Introduction, Andrew Light, Jonathan M. Smith, and David RobertsPart 2 I Place and MeaningChapter 3 1. Finding Place: Spatiality, Locality, and SubjectivityChapter 4 2. In Its Place: Site and Meaning in Richard Serra's Public SculptureChapter 5 3. Sites of Symbolic Density: A Relativistic Approach to Experienced SpaceChapter 6 4. Transformations in the Myth of the Inner Valleys as a Zionist SpacePart 7 II Place and EthicsChapter 8 5. Democracy and Sense of Place Values in Environmental PolicyChapter 9 6. From the Inside Out: The Farm as PlaceChapter 10 7. CommonplacesPart 11 III Changing Places: Political, Technological, and EconomicChapter 12 8. Space-Shaping Technologies and the Geographical Disembedding of PlaceChapter 13 9. Can a Sense of Place Be Preserved?Chapter 14 10. New Meanings of Place: The Place of the Poor and the Loss of Place as a Center of MediationChapter 15 11. Something Wild? Deleuze and Guattari and the Impossibility of WildernessPart 16 IV AfterwordChapter 17 12. Down to Earth: Persons in Place and Natural HistoryChapter 18 IndexChapter 19 About the Editors and ContributorsChapter 20 Philosophy and Geography Style and Submission Guide

an illuminating examination of many of the issues implicated by the notion of place and space. . . . These articles serve to make this a fine introduction to the philosophy of place.